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What Matters Most On Friday, December 28, 2018

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A photo of Israeli writer Amos Oz at his house in Tel Aviv from November 2015. Oz was nominated Thursday, April 20, 2017 for the Booker Man International Prize for his novel 'Judas' (Courtesy Dan Balilty/AP)

Amos Oz, ‘Israel’s greatest writer,’ advocate for peace, dies at 79

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel Prize-winner passes away after short battle with cancer; won dozens of awards; works translated into 45 languages; was peace activist, supporter of two-state solution

InterviewThere are no traitors, says Amos Oz, only those unafraid of change

By Jessica Steinberg

Amos Oz ‘overwhelmed’ by film documenting family’s past

Amos Oz slams Netanyahu but chides left for naiveté

Footage released by the IDF on December 28, 2018, shows fluids the army says it used to seal cross-border attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah flowing into the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila. (Israel Defense Forces)

Run or block it? IDF film shows Lebanese reactions as cement pours out of tunnel

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

IDF: With explosives and ‘liquid,’ cross-border tunnels from Kafr Kila destroyed

US troop withdrawal from Syria could take several months — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Arab Israeli who glided into Syria to join Islamic State jailed for 3.5 years

In this file picture taken on on June 14, 2013, clouds gather over a sign of HSBC private bank (Suisse) in the center of Geneva. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Banking giant HSBC divests from Israeli defense firm Elbit

As BDS campaigners claim victory, UK Zionist Federation expresses concern the bank is not applying same rules to defense firms from other countries

A crane is used at the construction site in the West Bank settlement of Amichai on September 7, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

France, PA condemn Israel’s construction plans for over 2,000 settlement homes

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority government meeting in Ramallah, on February 26, 2024. (Wafa)

In escalating trade fight, PA halts Israeli produce and poultry imports

An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

14 Times of Israel stories that mattered most in 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, at a Likud faction meeting on December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu hints timing of reports on grave defacement meant to hurt him

PM says TV channels only covered tombstone of attorney general’s father being damaged after alleged threats attributed to him, though it was discovered 10 days ago

2019 electionsLegal officials said to slam PM over reported threat against attorney general

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu calls for probe after grave of attorney general’s father defaced

By Michael Bachner

Alan Dershowitz: Not enough evidence to indict Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Leaving for Brazil, Netanyahu swipes at ‘leftist’ challenger Gantz

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

PM places up-and-coming rival in left-center political camp, pushing back against indications that former IDF chief will attempt to snatch votes from Likud voter base

Israel media reviewIt’s all about the Benjamins: 9 things to know for December 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Bereaved mother: Gantz, Ya’alon did nothing when my son was captured by Hamas

Opposition chief Livni said trying in vain to join up with Gantz’s new party

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press at the State Department in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

US confirms Pompeo and Netanyahu to meet in Brazil

By AFP

Israeli PM to hold talks with top diplomat weeks after Trump decision to pull out of Syria, putting Jerusalem at odds with Washington

Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, center, poses for photos during a lunch with popular singers who supported his campaign, at the Army Club, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Ahead of Netanyahu visit, incoming Brazilian leader blasts Israel critics

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Jair Bolsonaro, then a presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo)

Palestinian source: Arab ministers to visit Brazil to prevent embassy move

Frank Sinatra performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, September 1, 1980. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

Where did Frank Sinatra get his kippa? It happened in Margate

By Stephen Silver

From '4x4 Ephemeral Architectures,' a juggling ballet performed by Gandini Juggling to a work composed by Nimrod Borenstein (Courtesy Gandini Juggling)

A classical composer brings his music home to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: A 12-volume set of Babylonian Talmud with commentaries, printed in Amsterdam by Immanuel Benveniste, 1644-47 (Kestenbaum & Company)

New Talmud ‘biography’ seeks to bring the foundational text to life

By Rich Tenorio

Staff Officer of Archeology of the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria Area Hananya Hezmi at the Jerusalem-based Bible Lands Museum's new Finds Gone Astray exhibit. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Artifacts stolen and smuggled in the West Bank now on display in Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New Year’s Eve behind the Iron Curtain

Could I give up the only real holiday I knew when my new American Jewish school insisted it was Christmas?

Tammy Jacobowitz

The brave birthing of a nation

Those Israelite women undertook the redemptive act of bringing life into a darkening reality — and changed the world (Shemot)

Top Israeli songs of 2018

Leave out Netta’s TOY and Omer Adam’s megahits, and you still have a first-rate line-up

The light at the heart of darkness (Shemot 5779)

Instead of ’Pharaoh’s daughter,’ read ’Hitler’s daughter’ or ’Stalin’s daughter’ and understand just how righteous she was to save an Israelite baby boy

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Suspected incendiary balloons discovered in community close to the Gaza border, December 28, 2018 (Police spokesperson's unit)

Suspected incendiary balloon lands near kindergarten in Gaza border community

Liora Welles in a photo she uploaded to Facebook in December 2015. (Screenshot: Facebook)

2 more Israeli women charged in US in binary options fraud case

By AP and ToI Staff

File: An Orthodox Jewish Colombian family shown in 2012. (Paul Smith/For the Washington Post/via JTA)

Study finds widespread traces of Sephardic genes in Latin America

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz leaves the Supreme Court in Jerusalem after appearing before the justices as part of the disciplinary process against her, March 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court reinstates judge in Bezeq probe texting scandal

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

29-year-old woman shot dead in Ramle alley

A police officer stands near the US Capitol during a government shutdown in Washington, DC, December 27, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump points to Israeli wall as shutdown seen lasting into 2019

By AFP and ToI Staff

Members of an Orthodox Jewish community put a label from the 'International Rescue Committee for Jewish Families of the Lev Tahor Settlement' on the window of a bus in Guatemala city on September 25, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)

Brooklyn man charged in kidnapping of kids who escaped Hasidic cult

By AP

In this October 31, 2018 picture men perform modernization work on the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

New York rabbi says he is advising Qatar on welcoming Jews to the 2022 World Cup

By JTA

Illustrative - An Orthodox Jewish wedding. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn canceled after groom contracts measles

In this Wednesday, October 2, 2013, photo, Larry Blumberg, right, founder of Blumberg Family Jewish Community Services of Dothan, and the program's, executive director, Rob Goldsmith, discuss their relocation program at the Temple Emanu-El in Dothan, Alabama. (AP/Dave Martin)

Not so sweet homeBillionaire’s scheme to revive Alabama Jewish community goes south

By JTA

A villager wearing a traditional peasant galabiya gown inspects Christmas trees in El Kosheh, Egypt, on December 18, 2018. (RNS photo/ Fady Hadny)

Egypt’s Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, ponder changing date

By Mina Nader and Jacob Wirtschafter

This photo shows blue light over New York, as seen from Manhattan Borough of New York on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018 (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Close encounterNot aliens: NY skies turn bright blue after power plant explosion

By Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak

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